It was just a few days ago we learned that next month Martin Scorsese would begin directing Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Bobby Cannavale, and the recently-added Ray Romano in his long-gestating crime epic The Irishman. With that Netflix production set to continue to the end of the year, it was reasonable to imagine much of 2018 would find Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker in the editing room. However, it looks like we may get another new Scorsese film sooner than expected.
Speaking to Variety, Scorsese’s long-time production designer Dante Ferretti says that the goal is to begin shooting their adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI this spring. Based on the book from David Grann, the author behind The Lost City of Z, Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, The Good Shepherd) has penned the script that follows...
Speaking to Variety, Scorsese’s long-time production designer Dante Ferretti says that the goal is to begin shooting their adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI this spring. Based on the book from David Grann, the author behind The Lost City of Z, Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, The Good Shepherd) has penned the script that follows...
- 7/14/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
“All Eyez on Me” director Benny Boom will helm the Lapd thriller “The Shave,” written by Thomas White and Miles Hubley, Route One Entertainment CEO Russell Levine and Lost City President John Finemore announced Monday. The Blacklist script tells the story of an Lapd officer who was recently exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student. He visits the boy’s father at his barbershop and while receiving a straight razor shave, he listens to the father recount the story of his son’s life. Levine and Finemore are producing alongside Maiden Voyage’s Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus and Mason Novick,...
- 6/19/2017
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Benny Boom is getting The Shave.
The director of the Tupac biopic All Eyez On Me has signed on to helm the police thriller for Route One Entertainment, Lost City and Maiden Voyage.
The 2015 Black List script, written by newcomers Thomas White and Miles Hubley, centers on an Lapd officer who is exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student. He visits the boy's father, who gives him a straight razor shave at his barbershop while recounting the story of his son's life.
Route One Entertainment CEO Russell Levine and Lost City president John Finemore are producing with Maiden...
The director of the Tupac biopic All Eyez On Me has signed on to helm the police thriller for Route One Entertainment, Lost City and Maiden Voyage.
The 2015 Black List script, written by newcomers Thomas White and Miles Hubley, centers on an Lapd officer who is exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student. He visits the boy's father, who gives him a straight razor shave at his barbershop while recounting the story of his son's life.
Route One Entertainment CEO Russell Levine and Lost City president John Finemore are producing with Maiden...
- 6/19/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: After emerging from an opening weekend where his Tupac Shakur film All Eyez On Me established itself as a bonafide summer sleeper with a $27M opening weekend, director Benny Boom has signed on to next direct the provocative police thriller The Shave. Scripted by newcomers Thomas White and Miles Hubley, the 2015 Black List script will be produced by Route One Entertainment, Lost City and Maiden Voyage. The film tells the story of a corrupt Lapd officer who was…...
- 6/19/2017
- Deadline
Martin Scorsese‘s long-awaited reunion with Robert De Niro will finally happen with The Irishman; and with The Devil in the White City seemingly on the backburner, we’ve been wondering if Leonardo DiCaprio would reunite with his Wolf of Wall Street director. It now looks like a project is in the works that may bring all three of the titans together.
According to Deadline, the trio are “seriously considering” collaborating for an adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, the brand-new book from David Grann, the author behind The Lost City of Z. With Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, The Good Shepherd) penning the script after Imperative Entertainment snapped up the rights for $5 million, one can’t imagine a higher pedigree of talent attached.
The true-life crime novel tracks the conspiracy surrounding the murders of people in Oklahoma’s Osage Indian...
According to Deadline, the trio are “seriously considering” collaborating for an adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, the brand-new book from David Grann, the author behind The Lost City of Z. With Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, The Good Shepherd) penning the script after Imperative Entertainment snapped up the rights for $5 million, one can’t imagine a higher pedigree of talent attached.
The true-life crime novel tracks the conspiracy surrounding the murders of people in Oklahoma’s Osage Indian...
- 4/22/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Tony Sokol Apr 24, 2017
As well as the upcoming The Irishman, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are circling another project together...
David Grann's true-crime novel Killers Of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders And The Birth Of The FBI may be adapted in a film that would bring together Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Variations on this teaming have, of course, brought us classic movies like Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Gangs Of New York, New York, New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf Of Wall Street and the upcoming The Devil In The White City.
Imperative Entertainment bought the film rights to Killers Of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders And The Birth Of The FBI for $5 million last year and want an A-list cast.
The story digs deep into a string of mysterious deaths that happened on...
As well as the upcoming The Irishman, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are circling another project together...
David Grann's true-crime novel Killers Of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders And The Birth Of The FBI may be adapted in a film that would bring together Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Variations on this teaming have, of course, brought us classic movies like Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Gangs Of New York, New York, New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf Of Wall Street and the upcoming The Devil In The White City.
Imperative Entertainment bought the film rights to Killers Of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders And The Birth Of The FBI for $5 million last year and want an A-list cast.
The story digs deep into a string of mysterious deaths that happened on...
- 4/22/2017
- Den of Geek
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out….but mostly movies.
This Past Weekend:
It was absolutely no surprise that Hugh Jackman’s last Wolverine movie Logan would top the box office, but it actually ended up doing even better than my prediction when actual numbers came in, grossing $88.3 million over the weekend. That makes it the fourth highest X-Movie opening (including Deadpool) but also the biggest R-rated opening for March, defeating 300’s once-impressive $70 million opening. It’s also the fourth highest R-rated opening of all time after Deadpool, The Matrix Reloaded and American Sniper.
The bigger surprise was how well Jordan Peele’s thriller Get Out held up in its second weekend, not only because it was going up against Logan, but also because high-profile horror films tend...
This Past Weekend:
It was absolutely no surprise that Hugh Jackman’s last Wolverine movie Logan would top the box office, but it actually ended up doing even better than my prediction when actual numbers came in, grossing $88.3 million over the weekend. That makes it the fourth highest X-Movie opening (including Deadpool) but also the biggest R-rated opening for March, defeating 300’s once-impressive $70 million opening. It’s also the fourth highest R-rated opening of all time after Deadpool, The Matrix Reloaded and American Sniper.
The bigger surprise was how well Jordan Peele’s thriller Get Out held up in its second weekend, not only because it was going up against Logan, but also because high-profile horror films tend...
- 3/8/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Just before the fireworks starting banging and the puke starts flying, I'd just like to take a very brief moment to wish all of you a very happy and prosperous 2017. And of course a huge thanks to you for dropping by the site on a regular basis! Speaking of thanks, a huge thanks to Tom White for the incredible work that he does here, and the new chap, Martin, well, goddammit, he's doing a mighty fine job too! It's been a great year at The Movie Bit. Granted, movie wise, the quality was hit and miss. We only gave out our highest rating of 5 stars, eleven times this year. We dished out our lowest ratings of one and two stars a combined 34 times. Tragically, 2016 was a year that saw many sites hit a wall, with some movie studios favouring portal sites (encompassing everything from sport and cat pictures to movies) over dedicated movie sites.
- 12/31/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
The story behind director Thomas White’s film “Who’s Crazy?” is almost as odd as the actual plot of the film. After premiering at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, the film was thought lost. Never to be seen publicly again, the film should have faded off into obscurity, but there was still a piece of it that went on to become famous – the soundtrack.
Continue reading Trailer For Newly Restored ‘Who’s Crazy?’ Rediscovers A Lost, Experimental Film Classic at The Playlist.
Continue reading Trailer For Newly Restored ‘Who’s Crazy?’ Rediscovers A Lost, Experimental Film Classic at The Playlist.
- 11/23/2016
- by Charles Dean
- The Playlist
Since any New York cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Metrograph
Frederick Wiseman‘s High School begins a week-long run.
“Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z” offers multiple titles this weekend, including Assayas‘ Boarding Gate, The Beguiled, and Nicolas Roeg‘s Bad Timing.
A 35mm print of Carol screens on Saturday night.
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne star in My Favorite Wife, playing this Sunday.
Museum...
Metrograph
Frederick Wiseman‘s High School begins a week-long run.
“Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z” offers multiple titles this weekend, including Assayas‘ Boarding Gate, The Beguiled, and Nicolas Roeg‘s Bad Timing.
A 35mm print of Carol screens on Saturday night.
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne star in My Favorite Wife, playing this Sunday.
Museum...
- 3/25/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Film execs have voted for their favourite unproduced Us screenplays.
A script about Michael Jackson’s pet chimp Bubbles and a Moon-based roadtrip adventure are both on this year’s Black List of “most liked” unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.
The annual list, which was first published in 2005, surveys around 500 film executives on their favourite unmade scripts, with a typical response rate of 60%.
This year’s list features 81 screenplays, and was revealed in a series of Youtube videos hosted by the likes of Channing Tatum, Ava DuVernay and Lily James.
2015’s top screenplay is Isaac Adamson’s Bubbles, the story of the late pop star Michael Jackson’s life told through the narration of his pep chimp Bubbles.
Previous films on the list include Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech and Ben Affleck’s Argo, all of which went on to win best picture Oscars.
Spotlight and The...
A script about Michael Jackson’s pet chimp Bubbles and a Moon-based roadtrip adventure are both on this year’s Black List of “most liked” unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.
The annual list, which was first published in 2005, surveys around 500 film executives on their favourite unmade scripts, with a typical response rate of 60%.
This year’s list features 81 screenplays, and was revealed in a series of Youtube videos hosted by the likes of Channing Tatum, Ava DuVernay and Lily James.
2015’s top screenplay is Isaac Adamson’s Bubbles, the story of the late pop star Michael Jackson’s life told through the narration of his pep chimp Bubbles.
Previous films on the list include Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech and Ben Affleck’s Argo, all of which went on to win best picture Oscars.
Spotlight and The...
- 12/15/2015
- ScreenDaily
Rounding up the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives, The Black List has been a strong resource to clue one in on projects to potentially anticipate, but first, to kickstart Hollywood on bringing them to screen. Last year’s chart-topper Catherine the Great is still waiting to be produced and today we have this year’s editiong
Topping the 2015 edition, we have Isaac Adamson‘s Bubbles, which tells the story of Michael Jackson through the strange perspective of his adopted baby chimp. Also included is the Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger, which Jake Gyllenhaal was circling, and Miss Sloane, which has Jessica Chastain attached. So, as an early look for some potential upcoming films to keep on your radar, take a looked at the full, detailing list below, along with the number of votes each earned.
Bubbles by Isaac Adamson 44
A baby chimp...
Topping the 2015 edition, we have Isaac Adamson‘s Bubbles, which tells the story of Michael Jackson through the strange perspective of his adopted baby chimp. Also included is the Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger, which Jake Gyllenhaal was circling, and Miss Sloane, which has Jessica Chastain attached. So, as an early look for some potential upcoming films to keep on your radar, take a looked at the full, detailing list below, along with the number of votes each earned.
Bubbles by Isaac Adamson 44
A baby chimp...
- 12/15/2015
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Route One Entertainment and Lost City have come aboard to produce and finance The Shave with producers Chris and Eleanor Columbus' Maiden Voyage. Based on a script by Thomas White and Miles Hubley, the thriller centers on an Lapd officer who recently was exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student. He visits the boy’s father at his barbershop to tell him his side of the story — while receiving a straight-razor shave. The project will be produced by Chris…...
- 10/20/2015
- Deadline
Thomas White and Miles Hubley wrote the screenplay and Route One and Lost City will produce and finance with Maiden Voyage on board to produce.
The Shave tells of an Lapd officer cleared of murdering a high school student who visits the boy’s father and gets a wet shave while he relates his version of events.
Maiden Voyage’s Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus serve as producers with Route One CEO Russell Levine (pictured), Lost City’s John Finemore and Mason Novick and Michelle Knudsen of Mxn Entertainment.
Route One’s Chris Lytton is on board as executive producer alongside Lost City’s James Hoppe.
Lost City and Route One secured the screenplay. Route One and Maiden Voyage collaborated on Sian Heder’s upcoming Tallulah starring Ellen Page and Allison Janney.
Route One Entertainment financed and produced Drake Doremus’ recent Venice world premiere Equals starring Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult.
The slate includes...
The Shave tells of an Lapd officer cleared of murdering a high school student who visits the boy’s father and gets a wet shave while he relates his version of events.
Maiden Voyage’s Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus serve as producers with Route One CEO Russell Levine (pictured), Lost City’s John Finemore and Mason Novick and Michelle Knudsen of Mxn Entertainment.
Route One’s Chris Lytton is on board as executive producer alongside Lost City’s James Hoppe.
Lost City and Route One secured the screenplay. Route One and Maiden Voyage collaborated on Sian Heder’s upcoming Tallulah starring Ellen Page and Allison Janney.
Route One Entertainment financed and produced Drake Doremus’ recent Venice world premiere Equals starring Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult.
The slate includes...
- 10/20/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. A huge part of the cinematic landscape from the 30's to the 60's, creature features started to become incredibly scare in the 1980's, disappearing completely by the end of that particular decade, and just becoming a blip on the radar every couple of years. Some of the more famous examples of the genre, namely King Kong and Godzilla, have endured to this day, but the rest have been lost to the ages, living on only in bargain bins and late night t.v. But as much as I love this particular sub genre, for me it's crown jewel came in 1990, billed as a throwback the creature feature's 1950's heyday. I am, of course, talking about Tremors. Our setting is Perfection, Nevada, an small ex-mining...
- 2/12/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. After receiving critical acclaim and numerous awards for co-writing The Usual Suspects, Christopher McQuarrie was noticeably absent from the cinematic landscape. You may know him now for Jack reacher and Edge of Tomorrow, but back in the late nineties, he was unsuccessfully trying to get a biopic of Alexander the Great off the ground, not wanting his success with Bryan Singer's classic thriller to typecast him as 'a crime guy'. But, as the story goes, it took a cup of coffee with Benico Del Toro to change his mind, which sent him to work on his directorial debut, an action/crime thriller which turned everything we know about the usual hero dynamic on it's head. This was movie was 2000's The Way of the Gun.
- 2/4/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. There's often times I can't get my head around how movies with such a fantastic pedigree and legacy just get forgotten, and left by the wayside. Let's take the subject of today's article. It stars Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, and Alan Arkin (a group of actors immensely popular across a whole range of generations), written by acclaimed playwright David Mamet, was responsible for one of Al Pacino's Oscar nominations (the same year he won for Scent of a Woman), and went onto inspire one of The Simpson's most enduring supporting characters. But when I mention 1990's Glengarry Glen Ross to people, more often than not I'm met with blank stares and exclamations of "Glengarry Glen who?". If I was prone to over-reaction,...
- 1/19/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. Like any genre, horror movies rely on a number of tropes and cliches, the most famous and recognisable being the creepy hillbilly characters who usually the portents of doom for the beautiful, usually college age fodder. But what if those conventions were turned on their head, and we were expected to root for the rednecks? Well, that exact question is asked, and answered to great effect, in one of the finest horror comedies of recent years, 2010's Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. Tucker & Dale vs. Evil starts off like any other horror movie, introducing us to a somewhat likable group of young friends on their way to party it up at a weekend camping trip. It's when they stop at a run down gas station...
- 11/30/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. In the 90's, Batman's big screen outings seemed to be all style no substance (in Joel Schumacher's case, too much style). Sure they were entertaining as hell, but they weren't that faithful to the comics, instead possessing an increasingly goofy tone cribbed from Adam West's 60's portrayal. It seems that it wasn't till Christopher Nolan took over that we got the grounded tone more in keeping with the Dark Knight comic book exploits. But we would be wrong in thinking that, because Christmas Day 1993 brought the release of the animated Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Spinning off from Batman: The Animated Series, itself a spin off of Batman Returns, Mask of the Phantasm was the first really faithful adaption of Batman to hit the big screen.
- 11/24/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. Long before the McConaissance, Matthew McConaughey existed in a wasteland of romantic comedy fluff, his considerable talents wasted by the actor being typecast as the romantic lead of choice. But in 2002, just before the is new career path could take hold, came Frailty, a dark psychological thriller that marked a very impressive directorial debut from Bill Paxton, and, is in fact, a true forgotten gem in both mens back catalogue. Even though his name and face being all over the promotional material for Frailty, McConaughey's role, as Fenton Meiks, in this is quite small for the most part, acting more as a framing device as he tells the story of his childhood in a small Texas town with his younger brother and deeply religious...
- 11/16/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. Mixing genres isn't always an easy thing. Mixing a heavy supernatural element into the lot more grounded world of the police procedural should be nigh on impossible, but this is something 1998's Fallen does with ease. Telling a tale where body swapping demons rub shoulders with serial killers and dogged detectives, Fallen is a solid, wonderfully demented thriller. Starting with the obiligtory 90's scene of the end of the movie being used as a framing device, the movie properly kicks off with Denzel Washington's John Hobbes attending the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese, a wonderfully evil mad man portrayed by Elias Koteas (a character actor we'll all know as Casey Jones from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie). Through the eerie...
- 11/10/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. There's been many different dystopian futures depicted on the big screen down through the years: futures where apes rule, robots rule, or society has just up and failed to the point where leather has become an acceptable piece of clothing. But it took Mike Judge in 2006 with Idiocracy to present us with a future that is both hilarious and terrifyingly possible at the same, a future where the dumb have inherited the Earth. The idea of a future where the average I.Q. of the entire planet has plummeted is pretty high concept, but in Judge's hands, it delivers one of the smartest and best comedies of recent years, one that has gone criminally unseen. The future world of Idiocracy is one that is...
- 11/4/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. Trick r' Treat is probably the truest definition of a cult classic. Despite finishing production in 2007, the movie wasn't available for public consumption until it's 2009 DVD release. Before that, the movie was shown at conventions and festivals, and numerous free screenings, sponsored by the likes of Ain't it Cool News and Fangoria, when word of mouth spread and the fan base grew. So what made this small, Halloween themed horror anthology so popular? Well, there are many reasons, but the main one is one character: Sam. The seeds for Trick r' Treat were sown in 1996, when the movie writer/director Michael Dougherty (co-screenwriter on X-Men 2 and Superman Returns) noticed Halloween didn't have an iconic figure to represent it. Christmas has Santa Claus, Easter the Easter Bunny,...
- 10/26/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. In recent years, vampires have being de-fanged somewhat, Stephanie Myers' Twilight kickstarting the once fearsome creatures of the night's reinvention as romantic figures, and mainstays in Young Adult fiction. The trend seems to be dying off, thank god, with the likes of Dracula Untold and t.v show The Strain putting some bite back into the vampire legend, but in 1987, Kathryn Bigelow brought us a movie that proved you could perfectly marry the love story Myers was attempting to tell with the more traditional views of the vampire myth. That movie was Near Dark. Around about the year 2000, something got flipped in popular culture, and vampirism became an attractive prospect. No longer were vampires something to be feared, instead they were desirable, becoming something to emulate.
- 10/19/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. Mention the name Hannibal Lecter, and everyone will immediately know you are talking about the psychiatrist turned cannibal that lives in Thomas Harris's novels. In 1991, he was brought to the big screen in Silence of the Lambs, with Anthony Hopkins making the character a cinematic icon, and his own, with a memorably chilling performance. The subsequent movies, Hannibal, Red Dragon, and Hannibal Rising, saw the law of diminishing Lecters, with each one going some way to lessen the characters impact. It wasn't until 2012, that t.v. series Hannibal injected new life into the character, and Harris' formula of psychological thriller mixed with a police procedural. But there is one Hannibal Lecter movie that everyone forgets about, one that did things a little differently...
- 10/14/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. Nowadays, I like to think of director Paul W.S. Anderson as Michael Bay, minus a couple of million dollars. He has a great eye for visuals, and an inexplicably popular franchise, Resident Evil, he falls back on every couple of years, but his movies receive a not undeserved critical drubbing, far beyond anything the Master of Bayhem gets. Now the only enjoyment that I get from him is jokes playing on his name's similarity to the much more favoured Paul Thomas Anderson (you don't know the joy of angering hardcore film nerds by saying, "I can't wait for the next Paul Anderson film"). But there was a time, before the video game adaptions and putting his wife in everything, that I found him endlessly entertaining,...
- 10/5/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. Released in 1999, The Boondock Saints is a movie more known for its problems than anything else. The script, written by first timer Troy Duffy, was regarded as the hottest script in Hollywood, and when it was picked up by Miramax, Duffy was attached to direct, even though he had zero experience in the field. What followed, as captured in the documentary Overnight, will live on in infamy as Duffy's ego took control. He burnt every bridge he could in Hollywood, insulting and alienating producer and actor alike, resulting in the first time director becoming blacklisted in the industry. This ill will spilled over into the films release, receiving only one week in five theaters, and garnering poor reviews. But despite all these problems, The Boondock Saints...
- 9/28/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. The third film from Richard Linklater, and the second after Slacker put him on the the map, 1993's Dazed and Confused is typical of the director, presented as a slice of life of a group of mostly directionless characters as they go about their daily lives. But this coming of age comedy, with it's ensemble of, at the time, soon to be stars, and an undeniable love for the 1970's, became, pretty much instantly, one of Linklater's most accomplished work. Like most of the director's work, his home state of Texas is the setting, as the last day of school sees a disparate group of Austin high schoolers looking to celebrate. The plot is as directionless as the characters it follows. They are just looking for a good time,...
- 9/21/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Every week, Shelf Life sees Tom White select and talk about a movie that lives on his DVD shelf, one he thinks we should all see. With The Crow, director Alex Proyas made a huge mark on the main stream showing a lot of promise with his signature style and dark tone. While the likes of I, Robot and Knowing have seen his styleget diluted throughout the years, it was his third feature that showed Proyas at his best, and gave us a great sense of what he could achieve. That movie was 1998's Dark City. One full year before The Matrix (which also used some of the same sets), Dark City explored many similar themes and even shared many plot beats with The Wachowski's sci-fi classic, but while that movie went big and flashy, Dark City went smaller and deeper, with Rufus Sewell's John Murdoch discovering the city...
- 9/14/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Our own Tom White is wandering around Comic-Con as part of his honeymoon (he swears it wasn’t his idea) and he’s been kind enough to fire back some pretty awesome pics of the shenanigans in San Diego. We’ll update this page continuously with more images as Tom gets them, so bookmark it and check back regularly. We’ve now updated this into a slideshow, so click an image and you can scroll left and right through the full sized images. ... var cpo = []; cpo["_object"] ="cp_widget_90e9aeda-1b3b-4279-9862-3bc8e1c9059d"; cpo["_fid"] = "A4LAr07T81A0"; var _cpmp = _cpmp || []; _cpmp.push(cpo); (function() { var cp = document.createElement("script"); cp.type = "text/javascript"; cp.async = true; cp.src = "//www.cincopa.com/media-platform/runtime/libasync.js"; var c = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; c.parentNode.insertBefore(cp, c); })(); Powered by Cincopa Video Streaming Hosting solution.Comic-Con 2014Images from Comic-Con 2014 by Themoviebit.
- 7/26/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Comic-Con is about to kick off and the folks at Super Comic Fun Time have put together a great video showcasing the con’s long history in San Diego. So whether you’re a con regular or a con virgin, this is certainly worth a watch and yes of course, we will be covering Comic Con 2014 in full once the madness kicks off fully at the weekend! And if you’re going this weekend, keep an eye out for our own Tom White and his lovely lady wife, as they celebrate part of their honeymoon in San Diego!
- 7/23/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
If the game were packing the maximum possible net worth into a single snapshot, this kid would be winning. Omaha teen Tom White caught the internet's attention yesterday with the photo below, which he took on the streets of his hometown and which he simply captioned "Chillin with my homies." That's billionaire businessman Warren Buffett and famed rocker Paul McCartney appearing in the background, presumably relaxing on a bench while they awaited the arrival of a third supremely famous, supremely wealthy chum. Buffett lives in Omaha. McCartney doesn't (obviously), but is willing to head over to talk rich guy stuff...
- 7/15/2014
- by Drew Mackie
- PEOPLE.com
Thumbs up, indeed! This savvy teen and obvious future business leader of America happened upon Berkshire Hathaway chief executive Warren Buffett the other day in his hometown of Omaha, Neb. Which is cool, but the sighting was compounded by a zillion percent by the fact that Paul McCartney was sitting with the investment icon! "Chillin with my homies," Tom White captioned his Instagram pic, featuring himself giving a thumbs up to the camera while Buffett and the Beatles legend totally just sat there chillin' on a bench in the background. We're not sure who's photobombing who here, but what a shot! Then Sir Paul retweeted the pic, adding, "Just hanging...
- 7/15/2014
- E! Online
A week ago we got wind of a possible title change for The Hobbit: There and Back Again. Into The Fire was the title that was heavily rumoured, but as our own Tom White said on the podcast it could well be called The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. And looks like Tom’s intuition was right (for a change ) Peter Jackson himself posted it via his Facebook page saying that he had a quiet conversation with the studio about the idea of revisiting the title. Jackson goes onto to say that they decided to keep an open mind until a cut of the film was ready to look at. They reached that point last week, and after viewing the movie, they all agreed there is now one title that feels completely appropriate. "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" The director also says that people shouldn...
- 4/24/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Manchester is no stranger to providing us with musical greats – and electro-pop sorcerers Swiss Lips are the latest of her talented brood to cast a promising shadow over the musical landscape of the UK. The band are making waves with their affinity for drawing on and rechanneling an assortment of disparate musical influences, ranging from the pop wizardry of The Beach Boys to the synthy bluster of New Order.
WhatCulture’s Tim Dougill sat down with the band – Sam Hammond (vocals), Tim Estherby (keyboards), Luke Daniel (guitar), Nic Kozubik (drums), and Tom White (bass) - to talk about how good 2013 has been to them, Tim’s tragic attempt at growing a moustache for Movember, and the band’s elusive debut album.
The band’s “U Got The Power” Ep is out now (the title track was Radio 1′s Scott Mills’ “Record of the Week” earlier in 2013). The track is the...
WhatCulture’s Tim Dougill sat down with the band – Sam Hammond (vocals), Tim Estherby (keyboards), Luke Daniel (guitar), Nic Kozubik (drums), and Tom White (bass) - to talk about how good 2013 has been to them, Tim’s tragic attempt at growing a moustache for Movember, and the band’s elusive debut album.
The band’s “U Got The Power” Ep is out now (the title track was Radio 1′s Scott Mills’ “Record of the Week” earlier in 2013). The track is the...
- 12/12/2013
- by Benji Taylor
- Obsessed with Film
This weeks podcast comes from The Movie Bit radio segment on my nightly radio show. Myself, Tom White and Denis Dinan get it on when it comes to Irish Film and some of the worst movies from the last 10 years. You really don’t want to miss this one as people laugh, shout, cry and blood pressure is raised. Besides that, we also have the worst week for movie releases in history with Diana, R.I.P.D and A Belfast Story getting the review treatment. Don’t forget to subscribe on iTunes by clicking here and you’ll get all the new episodes when they go live as well as special features and interviews. Over the next few weeks composer Steven Price will be talking about scoring Gravity and Ian Nathan from Empire magazine talks about his new book The Terminator Vault. So what are you waiting for….subscribe.
- 9/23/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
The podcast returns after its holidays and this episode comes from my night time radio show on Cork’s RedFM. Joined by Tom White (from this here website) and Denis Dinan (from RedFM) theres plenty going on in episode 8. Reviews include Insidious 2 and Rush as well as movies that make you cry. And yes, we call cried a little on air, one of us a bit more than the other. So subscribe on iTunes by clicking here or you can grab a direct download as you scroll down the page.
- 9/16/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
So, here we go. The monumental milestone. Movie fans, after hundreds and hundreds of reviews, news pieces, editorials, competitions, podcasts and plenty more, welcome to the 5,000th post on The Movie Bit. This post won’t be meandering around our humble beginnings and how we were taken off the street and wrote articles for slices of bread. Instead, its just a quick opportunity to say thanks to all our writers past and present (especially Tom White, who is nothing but iconic) and more importantly thanks to You. Yup,You! Seriously. Thanks for dropping by on a daily basis. This site was born out of obsession (not the street kidnapping thing) and a love of movies. And hopefully that translates to you every know and again. So thanks again and here’s to the next 5000 articles! Vic Barry Editor...
- 8/16/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
In the final of our week of celebrating 4 years old, Tom White is taking a look at 4 Great Irish Movies from The Last 4 Years! Grabbers In the long history of Irish cinema, every genre of cinema had been tackled many time, except horror comedy. Well, that was before Grabbers. This tale of the inhabitants of a small island battling aliens while shit faced is a funny and smart slice of B movie craziness, packed to brim with homages to some of the sci-fi greats (keep your eyes peeled for the Aliens shout out near the end). A really great idea, played out perfectly with a great cast on top form, and special effects you thought you'd see in a low budget Irish movie. Memorable scene: The local doctor trying to determine how a decapitated man died. The Guard A crime thriller, told through a very Irish eye, The Guard see's...
- 6/21/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
As the Australian contingent heads for Europe for next year’s Cannes festival, Australia is in with a shot at the prized Grand Prix for Effectiveness, argues last year’s winner Steve Coll.
The argument in favour of creative awards is being made more vigorously than ever. Surprisingly, it’s not creative agencies making the case. It’s our clients.
Some of the world’s best marketers are embracing creative awards like never before. And nowhere is this more apparent than at Cannes, recently rebranded as the Festival of Creativity.
For several years, Cannes has been consistently demonstrating the correlation between work that works and work that wins. Matt Beispiel, Senior Director of Global Brand Development for McDonald’s, points to a measurable difference. “We’ve seen an Roi 54% higher with creative that wins at Cannes Lions than creative that doesn’t.”
Andy Fennell, Cmo of Diageo, puts it succinctly.
The argument in favour of creative awards is being made more vigorously than ever. Surprisingly, it’s not creative agencies making the case. It’s our clients.
Some of the world’s best marketers are embracing creative awards like never before. And nowhere is this more apparent than at Cannes, recently rebranded as the Festival of Creativity.
For several years, Cannes has been consistently demonstrating the correlation between work that works and work that wins. Matt Beispiel, Senior Director of Global Brand Development for McDonald’s, points to a measurable difference. “We’ve seen an Roi 54% higher with creative that wins at Cannes Lions than creative that doesn’t.”
Andy Fennell, Cmo of Diageo, puts it succinctly.
- 6/14/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Thomas White, who you may know from The Electric Soft Parade, has put all his other music to the side to produce a heart wrenching, coming-of-age solo album Yalla, set to be released March 19th.
The story behind this set of songs is almost what makes the album itself. With six weeks to kill in the Egyptian town of Dahab, the feeling of homesickness set in and the inspiration was there. Within a week and half, these songs were written and recorded on the laptop Thomas wisely decided to take along with him for the trip.
He’s left the studio tricks and clever effects behind and has stripped down his sound to just his soothing voice and a guitar. On the wistful That Heavy Sunshine Sound he talks of the blazing desert sun beating the ground while on All The Fallen Leaves admits he misses his hometown of Brighton.
Thomas White, who you may know from The Electric Soft Parade, has put all his other music to the side to produce a heart wrenching, coming-of-age solo album Yalla, set to be released March 19th.
The story behind this set of songs is almost what makes the album itself. With six weeks to kill in the Egyptian town of Dahab, the feeling of homesickness set in and the inspiration was there. Within a week and half, these songs were written and recorded on the laptop Thomas wisely decided to take along with him for the trip.
He’s left the studio tricks and clever effects behind and has stripped down his sound to just his soothing voice and a guitar. On the wistful That Heavy Sunshine Sound he talks of the blazing desert sun beating the ground while on All The Fallen Leaves admits he misses his hometown of Brighton.
- 3/8/2012
- by Jonathan Pritchard
- Obsessed with Film
New Orleans — Revelers hit the streets Tuesday to celebrate Mardi Gras, lured to the French Quarter and stately oak-lined avenues by the chance to snag beads and baubles from seemingly endless parades in the final unfettered party before the somber season of Lent.
The French Quarter was full of costumed revelers. Wearing a bright orange wig, a purple mask and green shoes, New Orleans resident Charlotte Hamrick walked along Canal Street to meet friends.
"I'll be in the French Quarter all day," Hamrick said. "I don't even go to the parades. I love to take pictures of all the costumes and just be with my friends. It's so fun."
Brittany Davies of Denver was struggling through the early morning hours. Still feeling the effects of heavy drinking from the night before, her friends had her out again early Tuesday.
"They're torturing me," Davies joked. "But I'll be Ok after a bloody Mary.
The French Quarter was full of costumed revelers. Wearing a bright orange wig, a purple mask and green shoes, New Orleans resident Charlotte Hamrick walked along Canal Street to meet friends.
"I'll be in the French Quarter all day," Hamrick said. "I don't even go to the parades. I love to take pictures of all the costumes and just be with my friends. It's so fun."
Brittany Davies of Denver was struggling through the early morning hours. Still feeling the effects of heavy drinking from the night before, her friends had her out again early Tuesday.
"They're torturing me," Davies joked. "But I'll be Ok after a bloody Mary.
- 2/21/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Patrick Wolf has unveiled the tracklisting for his fifth studio album. Lupercalia is released on May 30 through Mercury subsidiary Hideout and includes previous singles 'Time Of My Life' and 'The City'. The self-produced album was recorded in various studios worldwide and was mixed by Cenzo Townsend. It features guest performances from Thomas Bloch, Katie SkyLarkin, Belinda Sykes, Serafina Steer and Thomas White. Orchestral and choral arrangements (more)...
- 2/22/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
"Who wants to live in New York? Who wants the worry, the noise, the dirt, the heat? Who wants the garbage cans clanging in the street? Suddenly, I do!"—Stephen Sondheim, "Opening Doors" (from "Merrily We Roll Along")Whenever show folks address the subject of moving to New York, there's a tendency to emphasize the negatives, the challenges, the warnings. Unless you've been living under a rock, you know New York is expensive, competitive, and can really take it out of you; that only a naive and foolish actor makes the move expecting to earn a living; and that the transition—adjusting to the constant schlepping, the crowds, the weather—can be notoriously hard.But there's another side to the story, a side that emphasizes the adventure, the excitement, and the love affair that stage actors have with the city that is, inarguably, our mecca, a beacon that draws us from all over the world.
- 8/19/2010
- backstage.com
Some Republican congressmen have been warned to keep their distance from the female lobbyists who prowl Capitol Hill. Sources say House Minority Leader John Boehner has told Gop congressmen who partied with lobbyists "to knock it off." His spokesperson said, "Boehner has always told all our members that they will be held to the highest ethical standards." While there's no evidence of anything more than friendly flirtatious behavior, the lawmakers have been told to keep partying to a minimum in this midterm election year. Gop Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska -- who's in a...
- 7/21/2010
- NYPost.com
Above photo: Josh Weiss/jweisscreative.com
By Thomas White and Tamara Krinsky
Fundraising guru Morrie Warshawski attracted a substantial baudience to The Standard in downtown Los Angeles this past weekend, as Ida presented a day-long edition of its Doc U series. Warshawski, whose book Shaking the Money Tree, an essential tome for anyone seeking to raise funds for their films, is now in its third edition, took the participants through the process, breaking up the seminar on occasion for a few hands-on exercises. At the end of the day, the filmmakers left the ...
By Thomas White and Tamara Krinsky
Fundraising guru Morrie Warshawski attracted a substantial baudience to The Standard in downtown Los Angeles this past weekend, as Ida presented a day-long edition of its Doc U series. Warshawski, whose book Shaking the Money Tree, an essential tome for anyone seeking to raise funds for their films, is now in its third edition, took the participants through the process, breaking up the seminar on occasion for a few hands-on exercises. At the end of the day, the filmmakers left the ...
- 4/22/2010
- by IDA Editorial Staff
- International Documentary Association
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.